Quote: Yes, but it was not until 732 CE that they were like "oh shit we actually have a common enemy who wants to convert us to that, let's unite as Christians and oppose them".
They "united?" I don't think so. In fact, one of Urban II's rationales for launching the Crusades was to stop xtians from slaughtering each other.
In the words of Robert the Monk, Urban II said:
Quote:this land which you inhabit, shut in on all sides by the seas and surrounded by the mountain peaks, is too narrow for your large population; nor does it abound in wealth; and it furnishes scarcely food enough for its cultivators. Hence it is that you murder one another, that you wage war, and that frequently you perish by mutual wounds. Let therefore hatred depart from among you, let your quarrels end, let wars cease, and let all dissensions and controversies slumber. Enter upon the road to the Holy Sepulchre; wrest that land from the wicked race, and subject it to yourselves ... God has conferred upon you above all nations great glory in arms.
BTW, they later made this murdering motherfucker a "saint."
